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The word 'heist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heist in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
An eence he'd come onno't wid heist it on his shoothers, fair shu on page 106

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Bit welcome, a’, an heist ye back
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
raced ben the lochan-side tae heist the tyres ooto their hidiehol
in inno the planet Venus, tae heist up plumes like a bird:
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
machine. Ae meenit a wave wad heist her up-the neist it wad caa h
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Jack Aitken gaed a heist tae Scots editin DOST, a mich
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
heist ti dae it. John gaed ower ti
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - The Scaffie Man’s Tale, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ng aff, Ah realised thit this heist hid aw been planned. on page 112

1 matches

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